News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Latest events . . .
SLSA events
Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence, QUB: call for papers
Disability and Rights: The possibilities and limits of rights discourse under neoliberalism, online: call for abstracts
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body, Manchester
Other events
Book Discussion of Constructing Modern Slavery by Judy Fudge, King's College London
Summer School: A Terra Usque ad Astra – Heritage, human rights and space law, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: call for participants
1885 and its Long Shadow: Sexual offences in historical context, online from the Open University: call for papers
A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? Winning against the odds for human rights, equity, and indigenous peoples, University of Leeds
Asser-CSHR Online Summer Programme 2025: ‘International Sport and Human Rights', online from the Hague
PLP Public Law and Technology Conference, London
2025
April
SLSA Annual Conference 2025
Dates: 15–17 April 2025
Venue: University of Liverpool
See website for details.
Joint Inaugural Lecture with Professor Irit Samet and Professor Ann Mumford
Date: 24 April 2025
Venue: The Great Hall, King's Building, King's College London
See website for details.
Gender-based Violence across Borders: Challenges and opportunities
Date: 24 April 2025
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle
See website for details.
British Institute of International and Comparative Law: new schedule of short courses for 2025
Foundations of International Law – starts 25 April 2025
Climate Change Law – starts 29 April 2025
Public International Law in Practice – starts 23 September 2025
Climate Change Litigation – starts 24 September 2025
Artificial Intelligence Governance – starts 24 September 2025
International Cultural Heritage – starts 25 September 2025
Law of the Sea – starts 26 September 2025
Business and Human Rights – starts 6 October 2025
All thes courses are online. See website for details.
Modern Slavery and Human Rights: Migrant workers in the agricultural and care sectors in the UK
Date: 28 April 2025
Venue: online from Durham University
Speaker: Professor Tomoya Obokata,UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
See website for details.
Ecocide? Debating the criminalisation of environmental harm
Date: 28 April 2025
Venue: University of Glasgow and online
See website for details.
LHub Seminar Series: Necrosonics: Rap, Race, and Policing
Date: 29 April 2025
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Speaker: Professor Jisha Menon (Stanford)
See website for details.
The Juridification of Justice
Dates: 29–30 April 2025
Venue: Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
See website for details.
Sexual Consent and Legal Reform: Towards a Communicative Responsibility Approach
Date: 30 April 2025
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
See website for details.
Journal of Corporate Law Studies: Online information session for women authors
Date: 30 April 2025
Venue: online
See invitation for details.
Limits of Restrictions: Religious Minorities in Europe and Asia
Date: 30 April 2025
Venue: University of Exeter
See website for details.
May
Book Discussion of Constructing Modern Slavery by Judy Fudge
Date: 1 May 2025
Venue: Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
See website for details.
Rethinking Rights
Date: 6 May 2025
Venue: UCL, London
Speaker: Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh)
See website for details.
‘Safe Countries’ and Women’s International Protection: A cold climate for refugee women?
Date: 7 May 2025
Venue: Online from Women in Refugee Law
See website for details.
Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference: Anatomy of a Crisis
Dates: 8–9 May 2025
Venue: McGill Universeity, Montreal, Canada
See poster for details. For all enquires contact:
A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? Winning against the odds for human rights, equity, and indigenous peoples
Dates: 8–9 May 2025
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
See website for details.
Journal of Environmental Law Workshop 2025: On 'Greenwashing'
Date: 9 May 2025
Venue: University of Bristol Law School
See website for details.
Who Were the Law-givers? A panel discussion
Date: 9 May 2025
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
See announcement for details.
Journal of Environmental Law Workshop 2025: On 'Greenwashing',
Date: 9 May 2025
Venue: University of Bristol
See website for details. Organised by the Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability.
Mistreating Consent
Date: 12 May 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London and online
See website for details.
Slavery’s Long Goodbye: A Wilberforce Institute Lecture
Date: 14 May 2025
Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Kingston upon Hull
Speaker: Professor Chris Evans, University of Wales
See website for details.
Dysfunctional Governance: 'Crisis', 'scandal', 'tragedy', 'emergency'
Dates: 15–16 May 2025
Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff: call for abstracts
Submissions are invited for this interdisciplinary workshop. See announcement for details.
Birkbeck Law School Annual Law Lecture: 'Theatre of the Upside Down: Performative Chaos and the Law'
Date: 16 May 2025
Venue: Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck University of London
Speaker: Professor Patricia Williams
See website for registration.
Land and Property Beyond the Centenary
Date: 16 May 2025
Venue: online
Organised by the Open University Legal Histories Cluster. See website and annoucement for details.
Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law: Thinking about movement
Date: 20 May 2025
Venue: online hosted by the Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law Network
Speakers: Dr Anna Macdonald and Prof Marie-Andrée Jacob
See website for details.
Law and Society Association Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop
Date: 21 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See website for details.
Asser-CSHR Online Summer Programme 2025: ‘International Sport and Human Rights'
Dates: 21–23 and 26–28 May 2025
Venue: online from the TMC Asser Instituut, The Hague
See announcement for details. Organised by TMC Asser Instituut in collaboration with the Centre for Sport and Human Rights. Registrations are open and a limited number of scholarships are also available.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 22–25 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See meeting details. Registration is now open.
Socio-Legal Annual Lecture by Professor Martti Koskenniemi
Date: 28 May 2025
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
See website for details.
Understanding Miscarriages of Justice at 25
Date: 28 May 2025
Venue: Queen Mary University of London
See announcement for details.
The Stories We Tell: Or why can’t we remember the Magdalene Laundries?
Date: 28 May 2025
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Speaker: Dr Louise Brangan
See website for details.
‘What’s Next for Feminism?’ LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory papers
Dates: 29–30 May 2025
Venue: LSE, Houghton Street, London
See website for details.
June
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: call for abstracts
Date: 2 June 2025
Venue: online from University of Derby
See announcement for details. Organised in association with INTERPOL.Closing date: 23 April 2025.
5th Annual UK Animal Law Conference
Dates: 4–5 June 2025
Venue: UK Centre for Animal Law and the Animals, Birmingham University
See website for details.
Surrogacy 'Reforms' and Future Reproductive Technologies
Date: 5 June 2025
Venue: University of Greenwich
See website for details.
Conference on Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond
Dates: 5–6 June 2025
Venue: Institut d'études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles
See website for details.
Law and the Critique of Political Economy: 60th Anniversary of Reading Capital
Date: 6–7 June 2025
Venue: Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
See website for details. Closing date: 13 April 2025.
PLP, Public Law and Technology Conference
Date: 9 June 2025
Venue: Fieldfisher London
See website for details.
WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care
Dates: 11–12 June 2025
Venue: IALS, Charles Clore House, Russell Square, London
See website and announcement for details.
Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group Annual Workshop
Date: 13 June 2025
Venue: St Hilda's College, Oxford
See announcement for details.
Legal Action Group Housing Law Conference
Date: 13 June 2025
Venue: BPP University, Holborn, London
See website for details.
Disability and Rights: The possibilities and limits of rights discourse under neoliberalism: call for abstracts
Dates: 13–14 June 2025
Venue: online
See announcement for details. Closing date for submission of abstracs 11 April 2025. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition and the University of Leicester and organised by the SLSA Disability Law and Social Justice Stream and the Marxism and Disability Network.
Summer Academy for Feminist Legal Studies 2025: call for speakers
Dates: 13–15 June 2025
Venue: University of Hamburg, Germany
See announcement for details. If you are interested in participating in the Summer Academy as a speaker, please send a short email with details of your expertise or research area to
Summer School: A Terra Usque ad Astra – Heritage, human rights and space law
Dates: 16–22 June 2025
Venue: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: call for participants
See website for details. Closing date: 18 May 2025.
Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and the Law: A Conversation between Feminist Scholars in Postcolonial South Asia and the UK
Dates: 16–17 June 2025
Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff University
See announcement for details.
Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence
Dates: 19–20 June 2025
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
UK Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Health Conference: Opportunities, challenges and the vulnerabilities of health throughout the life course
Dates: 19–20 June 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
Speakers: Professor Amy T. Campbell, University of Illinois; Dr Nigel Stobbs, Queensland University of Technology; Dr John Stannard, Queen’s University Belfast
See announcement for details.
Valuation, Space and Power ECR Workshop: call for papers
Dates: 23–24 June 2025
Venue: University of Sheffield
See announcement for details. Call closes: 30 April 2025.
New Perspectives on Law and Literature
Date: 26 June 2025
Venue: Birkbeck Law School
See website for details.
'Law in Context': Early Career Workshop: call for papers
Dates: 26–27 June 2025
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
See poster and announcement for details. Call closes: 25 April 2025.
Summer School: Introduction to Experimental Methods in Social Sciences: Surveys, Laboratory and Field Experiments
Dates: 30 June–4 July 2025
Venue: NCRM, University of Southampton
See website for details.
July
Workshop: In the Name of National Security: The fragility of human rights – call for papers
Date: 3 July 2025
Venue: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid
Co-hosted by the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. See announcement for details. Closing date: 25 April 2025.
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India
Dates: 3–4 July 2025
Venue: University of Worcester
Speaker: Dame Linda Colley
See website for details.
1885 and its Long Shadow: Sexual offences in historical context: call for papers
Date: 11 July 2025
Venue: online from the Open University
See website for details. Hosted by The Open University Legal Histories Research Cluster and the British Sociological Association Global Histories and Sociology Study Group. Closing date: 16 May 2025.
Behind Closed Books: Money Laundering in UK Insolvency Proceedings: call for papers
Date: 17 July 2025
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
See announcement for details. Closing date: 14 April 2025.
2025 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute: call for applications
Dates: 28 July–8 August 2025
Venue: Jesus College, Oxford
See website for details. Early application deadline: 21 March 2025; final application deadline: 25 April 2025.
August
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body
Date: 25 August 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
See website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
September
Critical Legal Conference 2025: 'Surf ‘n’ Turf: Critical Laws of the Land and Sea
Dates: 4–6 September 2025
Venue: University of Exeter
See announcement and website for details.
Responsible AI in Health Care
Dates: 10–12 September 2025
Venue: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
See announcement for details.
25 Years of the Human Rights Act: call for papers
Date: 18 September 2025
Venue: Liberty Building, University of Leeds
See website for details. Call closes: 1 April 2025.
October
SAFI Annual Conference: call for papers
Date: 9–10 October 2025
Venue: University of Amsterdam
Theme: Reimagining Justice
See announcement and website for details. Call closes: 15 May 2025.
November
From Binary to Bench: Empowering equal opportunities and AI literacy in global legal education
Date: 5 November 2025
Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, and online
See website of details. This is an SLS-funder symposium organised by Dr Melanie Stockton-Brown and Dr Basak Bak.
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